UltimaSMS leverages at least 151 apps that have been downloaded collectively more than 10 million times, to extort money through a fake premium SMS subscription service. Threat actors are using…
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Defending Assets You Don’t Know About Against Cyberattacks
No security defense is perfect, and shadow IT means no company can inventory every single asset that it has. David “moose” Wolpoff, CTO at Randori, discusses strategies for core asset…
How APIs can turn your business into a platform
Market, technology, and legislative trends have created needs across all industry verticals to create and consume APIs. The mandate of an API economy is clear — the question that IT…
Ex-carrier employee sentenced for role in SIM-swapping scheme
A former sales representative of a mobile carrier has been sentenced after accepting bribes to perform SIM-swapping attacks. This week, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) said that Stephen Defiore,…
Over 80% of Brits Deluged with Scam Calls and Texts
Over 80% of Brits Deluged with Scam Calls and Texts Some 45 million Brits received fraudulent phone calls and texts over the summer, according to new data from Ofcom. The UK’s…
450 million cyberattacks attempted on Japan Olympics infrastructure: NTT
The NTT Corporation, which provided wide-ranging telecommunications services and network security for the Olympic & Paralympic Games in Tokyo this summer, said there were more than 450 million attempted cyberattacks…
Introducing ATT&CK v10: More Objects, Parity and Features
Amy L. RobertsonOct 21 · 6 min read By Amy L. Robertson (MITRE), Alexia Crumpton (MITRE), and Chris Ante (MITRE) As announced a couple of weeks ago, we’re back with…
Palo Alto warns of BEC-as-a-service, finds average wire fraud attempted is $567,000 with peak of $6 million
Business email compromise (BEC) continues to cost victims thousands — and sometimes millions — of dollars, according to a new report from Palo Alto Networks’ threat research group Unit 42.…